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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks

Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them

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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks

Auteur(s): Donald R. Prothero
Narrateur(s): Tom Parks
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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology. In 25 chapters, Donald R. Prothero recounts the scientific detective work that shaped our understanding of geology, from the unearthing of exemplary specimens to tectonic shifts in how we view the inner workings of our planet.

Prothero follows in the footsteps of the scientists who asked - and answered - geology's biggest questions: How do we know how old the earth is? What happened to the supercontinent Pangea? How did ocean rocks end up at the top of Mount Everest? What can we learn about our planet from meteorites and moon rocks? He answers these questions through expertly chosen case studies, such as Pliny the Younger's firsthand account of the eruption of Vesuvius; the granite outcrops that led a Scottish scientist to theorize that the landscapes he witnessed were far older than Noah's Flood; the salt and gypsum deposits under the Mediterranean Sea that indicate that it was once a desert; and how trying to date the age of meteorites revealed the dangers of lead poisoning.

Each of these breakthroughs filled in a piece of the greater puzzle that is the earth, with scientific discoveries dovetailing with each other to offer an increasingly coherent image of the geologic past.

©2018 Donald R. Prothero (P)2020 Tantor Environnement Science Sciences biologiques Sciences de la Terre Paléontologie Histoire naturelle Région polaire Mathématiques Système solaire Découvertes Moyen Âge Afrique Geology Earth Science
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Sadly, my number one want for any non-fiction book ~ a PDF accompaniment ~ does not exist for this title.

If you preview the Kindle book on Amazon, you will see there are diagrams and photographs included. From the few I was able to see, most are sourced as Wikipedia Commons, so presumably Googling while you listen will bring up at least some visuals. In fact, the narration provides helpful tips for this exact purpose. For example, in Chapter 2, he suggests typing “pillow lava eruption” into any search engine to see what he is talking about.

Fortunately, the chapters are well labelled in the audiobook version, you can move around with relative ease.

Now, to the content…

Overall, I really enjoyed the book, the author’s approach and how interesting he made material I admittedly thought would be on the boring side.

Here a few fun things I learned:
• Meteorites are normally named after the nearest post office.
• All biologically important molecules, except certain sugars, are left handed (I have no idea what this means, I just thought it was cool)
• If you are in British Columbia (which I am), you’re actually in Fiji and Indonesia.

You are sure to find plenty of your own fun facts!


Below is a listener’s guide I created for my own reference while listening. The chapter references are still there… it’s just an alternate way to organize your thinking. It works for my brain, so I’m sharing it with others.

EARTH’S ORIGINS AND COSMIC MATERIALS
Chondritic Meteorites — Fragments unchanged since the solar system’s birth (Ch. 9)
Iron-Nickel Meteorites — The metallic hearts of shattered planets (Ch. 10)
Moon Rocks — What lunar samples revealed about our shared origin (Ch. 11)
Zircons — Tiny crystals preserving evidence of early oceans (Ch. 12)

EARLY EARTH AND THE BEGINNING OF LIFE
Angular Unconformity — Hutton’s cliffs at Siccar Point reveal deep time (Ch. 4)
Banded Iron Formation — Red layers marking Earth’s first oxygen (Ch. 14)
Diamictites — Proof of glaciers reaching the equator (Ch. 16)
Stromatolites — Microbial structures built by ancient cyanobacteria (Ch. 13)

PLATE TECTONICS, CONTINENTS, AND MOUNTAINS
Blueschists — Deep-formed rocks from subduction zones (Ch. 22)
Exotic Terranes — Pieces of crust that traveled across oceans (Ch. 17)
Igneous Dikes — Frozen veins of molten rock (Ch. 5)
Jigsaw-Puzzle Bedrock — Wegener’s early vision of continental drift (Ch. 18)
Lodestones — Magnetic clues that recorded shifting poles (Ch. 21)
Transform Faults — Earthquakes along California’s restless seam (Ch. 23)

CLIMATE, SEAS, AND GLOBAL CHANGE
Chalk — Soft white rock made of countless fossil shells (Ch. 19)
Glacial Erratics — Boulders carried far from home by ice (Ch. 25)
Messinian Evaporites — When the Mediterranean nearly vanished (Ch. 24)
Turbidites — Underwater landslides forming rhythmic layers (Ch. 15)

HUMAN CIVILIZATION AND GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY
Cassiterite — Tin that fueled the Bronze Age (Ch. 3)
Coal — The rock that powered the Industrial Revolution (Ch. 6)
Jurassic World — William Smith’s map that changed geology (Ch. 7)
Native Copper — The Iceman’s metal, shaped before smelting (Ch. 2)
Radioactive Uranium — Holmes’s clocks for dating the Earth (Ch. 8)
The Iridium Layer — The smoking gun of dinosaur extinction (Ch. 20)
Volcanic Tuff — Vesuvius and the buried city of Pompeii (Ch. 1)


Edition details below refer to the Audible audiobook I listened to:

The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
Written by: Donald R. Prothero
Narrated by: Tom Parks
RELEASE DATE 2020-05-05
FORMAT Unabridged Audiobook
LENGTH 11 hrs and 2 mins
PUBLISHER Tantor Audio

©2018 Donald R. Prothero (P)2020 Tantor

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